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EU's Trade Commissioner
Defends Multilateral Talks

BRUSSELS -- Europe's top trade official warned against abandoning multilateral negotiations, despite the failure to resolve deep divisions over Iraq at the United Nations.

Some analysts believe that the trans-Atlantic tensions that resulted from U.S. frustrations with France over Iraq will inevitably spill over to the World Trade Organization, but Pascal Lamy, the European Union's trade commissioner, said in an interview: "The whole trading system should and can act as a stabilizer. If we want to be faithful to what we...